Fox News Is Holding More Cards Than Trump Realizes
Even if there's a MAGA exodus from Fox, the cable network’s profits are protected by lucrative cable contracts.
Trump’s loss has effectively put Fox News at a crossroads.
Photographer: Kevin Hagen/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump and a pair of fledging conservative news networks seem intent on taking down Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. Do they have a shot?
In the weeks since he lost his re-election bid, Trump has stepped up broadsides against his one-time channel of choice, goading followers to switch from Fox to the more MAGA-friendly alcoves of Newsmax TV and One America News Network. Both have been more willing to hawk the president’s spurious claims of voter fraud, which at Fox are relegated to its nighttime opinion shows — and even there are beginning to fade. For Newsmax and OAN, hitching their wagon to the reality-TV star, even as he’s set to leave the White House, has given them the best chance at pillaging Fox’s ratings and springing from obscurity.